SANAA, Yemen – Security officials say gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the head of security in Yemen’s port city of Aden. The officials say Col. Abdelhakim al-Sanidi was killed Sunday while driving on a busy street in al-Mansoura neighborhood. Last week, high-ranking police officials in Aden said hundreds of …
Read More »
KUWAIT CITY – Two members of Kuwait’s so-called “stateless” community say the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” was born to an undocumented family in an impoverished corner of the oil-rich nation. They told The Associated Press on Monday that family members of militant Mohammed Emwazi in the Gulf …
Read More »
MOSCOW – A Moscow court has ordered the governor of the Russian Pacific Island of Sakhalin to be held in custody on charges of accepting a $5.6-million bribe. Gov. Alexander Khoroshavin was arrested Wednesday and flown to Moscow, where the Basmanny district court ordered him held pending the probe. Investigator …
Read More »
HELSINKI – An Iraqi-born cleric convicted of making death threats against a Norwegian politician and intimidating witnesses has walked free from prison. Mullah Krekar, a 58-year-old Kurd known as Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, served nearly three years in prison. Relatives collected him Sunday from Kongsvinger prison near Oslo. Outside the gates, …
Read More »
BEIRUT – In the moments after her husband blew himself up in the ballroom of a Jordanian hotel as part of an al-Qaida plot, Sajida al-Rishawi fled the scene of chaos wearing her own explosive belt. The 2005 assault on three hotels in Amman, the worst terror attack in Jordan’s …
Read More »
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A wealthy military general charged with murdering a fellow tycoon over a business dispute was taken into police custody Friday. Thong Sarath was sent to police headquarters in Phnom Penh after being taken into custody in the eastern province of Svay Rieng, National Police spokesman Gen. …
Read More »
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan court on Wednesday granted police 15 days to hold and interrogate a man who is suspected of carrying out surveillance on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rural home in preparation for an attack. Prosecutor Daniel Karuri told a court Wednesday that police require more time to interrogate …
Read More »
SYDNEY – A Catholic brother accused of sex abuse in the U.S. has been convicted in Australia of a string of decades-old child sex offenses. Bernard Hartman was accused of abusing four children in the 1970s and 1980s, when he worked as a teacher at St Paul’s College, a secondary …
Read More »
Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas reached a temporary cease-fire deal Wednesday that includes the release of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip. Here is what to know about this deal on the 47th day of the Israel-Hamas war. When is the cease-fire expected to begin? The …
Read More »
The Chinese Communist Party is pressuring the Taiwanese people to vote “on the right side of history” by selecting presidential candidates open to reconnecting with the mainland. Song Tao, head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, issued a message urging the island to “consider the bigger picture” on the future of …
Read More »